Patents Assigned to Service
  • Patent number: 8424603
    Abstract: A method of treating a subterranean formation comprises providing a treatment fluid comprising: an aqueous fluid; a gelling agent, and a multifunctional boronic crosslinker comprising two or more boronic functional groups; and introducing the viscosified fluid into a subterranean formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David M. Loveless, Rajesh K. Saini, Jimmie D. Weaver
  • Patent number: 8428976
    Abstract: A method of determining a renewal deductible for an insurance policy includes providing a computer having a processor, determining that a default deductible is less than a current deductible, and determining that a new deductible indicator is negative. The method includes retrieving, using the processor and an available deductible key reference, a plurality of available deductibles from a third table and determining, using the processor, that the plurality of available deductibles does not include the current deductible. The method further includes setting the renewal deductible equal to the available deductible of the plurality of available deductibles higher than and closest to the current deductible if the next higher deductible indicator is in a positive state and setting the renewal deductible equal to the available deductible of the plurality of available deductibles less than and closest to the current deductible if the next higher deductible indicator is in a negative state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
    Inventors: Jeromy Laverne Johnson, Michael Hongmin Chan
  • Patent number: 8429037
    Abstract: Techniques for performing an accounts payable process may include receiving transaction data including at least one of invoice data, purchase order data, and vendor data; and verifying a transaction by matching a dynamic data set of client-specified multi-dimensional criteria to the transaction data. An accounts payable system may include a host system in communication with one or more client systems. The host system may include a matching database configured to receive an accounts payable file including at least one of invoice data, purchase order data, and vendor data; and verify a transaction by matching a dynamic data set of client-specified multi-dimensional records to attributes of the accounts payable file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
    Inventors: James S. Stone, Greg Domaracki
  • Patent number: 8424387
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting defects in a railway rail includes a search unit and preferably a roller search unit (“RSU”) mounted on a test vehicle and in rolling contact with the running surface of the rails to inspect each rail. The RSU includes a tire filled with a liquid and a transducer assembly mounted within the tire. The transducer assembly includes one or more arrays of ultrasonic transducers directed toward the running surface of the rail. A laser profiler mounted on the test vehicle in combination with a linear encoder provide profile data which is communicated to a system controller to dynamically adjust the focal laws for the one or more arrays of transducers to dynamically steer the transmitted beams to produce the ideal inspection beam sets while the test vehicle is in motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Herzog Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey B. Wigh, Richard L. Ebersold, Troy L. Elbert, Timothy J. Coolman
  • Patent number: 8428618
    Abstract: A system provides location-based services through an enhanced mobile device. The system determines a current location of the mobile device, and determines whether the current location of the mobile device falls within one or more geographic regions defined in a database. If the current location falls within one or more of the geographic regions, the system identifies services available within the one or more geographic regions that the mobile device is determined to be within. The system generates a customized menu based on the identified services and displays the customized menu on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Andrew E. Fano, Scott W. Kurth
  • Patent number: 8428973
    Abstract: A system implemented on one or more processors for automatically disabling mobile device usage while driving may comprise at least one subsystem configured for determining whether a mobile device is traveling at a speed greater than a predetermined threshold and at least one subsystem configured for disabling a functionality of the mobile device if it is determined that the mobile device is traveling at a speed greater than the predetermined threshold. The at least one subsystem configured for determining whether a mobile device is traveling at a speed greater than a predetermined threshold may comprise at least one subsystem configured for receiving output data from an accelerometer on the mobile device and at least one subsystem configured for using said data to determine a current speed of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventor: John C. Hopkins, III
  • Patent number: 8426379
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions for diagnosis and treatment of carcinomas with aberrant expression patterns of POT 1. The invention also provides methods of identifying compounds that may modulate the cellular expression of POT 1. The invention further provides methods for treating subjects suffering from or at risk of developing a colorectal carcinoma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health & Human Services
    Inventors: Qin Yang, Curtis C. Harris
  • Patent number: 8429519
    Abstract: A presentation generator may access one or more data sources structured into data fields. The user may create or modify a template by inserting one or more tags corresponding to data fields in the template. The template may also have one or more processing instructions for indicating the data sources and how the data sources should be queried. The processing instructions may also indicate how the data is to be grouped across various slides, pages, sections, etc. The generator may build the presentation based on the template, its tags, and its processing instructions. The resulting presentation may be accessed by a user-friendly application, such as a word processor, slide program, spreadsheet, report viewer, or other application. The user may update part or all of the presentation using information on the queries and data sources embedded in the presentation itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Michael T. Parks, Steven B. Petchon
  • Patent number: 8424755
    Abstract: An automated banking machine operates to cause financial transfers responsive to data read from data bearing records in the form of user cards. The machine includes a printer for printing paper records of transactions conducted at the machine. The printer receives paper from a shared paper path. The shared paper path can be supplied by a first paper supply and a second paper supply. A controller is operative to switch between the paper supplies in providing paper to the printer. Based on signals received from paper sensors in the machine, the controller can determine whether the first paper supply has reached a predetermined low level. In response to a low level determination, the controller acts to cause a paper drive to begin moving paper from the second paper supply to the shared paper path and then to the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Sathish M. Irudayam, Marcelo Castro, John E. Williams
  • Patent number: 8425901
    Abstract: The invention generally features compositions and methods based on the structure-based design of alpha 1-3 N-Acetylgalactosaminyltransferase (alpha 3 GaINAc-T) enzymes from alpha 1-3 galactosyltransferase (a3Gal-T) that can transfer 2?-modified galactose from the corresponding UDP-derivatives due to substitutions that broaden the alpha 3Gal-T donor specificity and make the enzyme a3 GaINAc-T.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Pradman K. Qasba, Boopathy Ramakrishnan, Elizabeth Boeggeman, Marta Pasek
  • Patent number: 8424455
    Abstract: An explosive tool is disclosed. The explosive tool comprises a body structure, a charge, a detonator to ignite the charge via propagation of thermal energy, a pressure actuated safety to prevent propagation of sufficient thermal energy to ignite the charge when the pressure actuated safety is subjected to a surface pressure and to not prevent propagation of sufficient thermal energy to ignite the charge when the pressure actuated safety is subjected to at least a predefined pressure threshold, and a temperature actuated safety to prevent propagation of sufficient thermal energy to ignite the charge when the temperature actuated safety is subjected to a surface temperature and to not prevent propagation of sufficient thermal energy to ignite the charge when the temperature actuated safety is subjected to at least a predefined temperature threshold. The charge, the detonator, the pressure actuated safety, and the temperature actuated safety are contained within the body structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald L. Crawford, II
  • Patent number: 8429112
    Abstract: A system is disclosed that provides a goal based learning system utilizing a rule based expert training system to provide a cognitive educational experience. The system provides the user with a simulated environment that presents a business opportunity to understand and solve optimally. Mistakes are noted and remedial educational material presented dynamically to build the necessary skills that a user requires for success in the business endeavor. The system utilizes an artificial intelligence engine driving individualized and dynamic feedback with synchronized video and graphics used to simulate real-world environment and interactions. A robust business model provides support for realistic activities and allows a user to experience real world consequences for their actions and decisions and entails realtime decision-making and synthesis of the educational material. The system is architectured around a table of components to manage and control the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Eren Tolga Rosenfeld, Ekpedeme Mfon Bassey, Beth Elyse Zadik, Martha Torrey O'Connor, Alexander Han Leung Poon, Eric Jeffrey Lannert, Tracey Andrea Solomon, Jonathan Christian Conant, Alexander Zorba, Carl Michael Puccio, Timothy John Gobran, James Andrew Gilchrist, Mark Stewart Nichols, Brandon Denning Fleisher, Craig William Friedman, Adebisi Detoro Lipede, Matthew Allen Bailey
  • Patent number: 8425116
    Abstract: A guide bushing for a tensioning rod in a vertical pulverizer includes a bushing body having a substantially cylindrical interior bushing surface configured and adapted to moveably engage a tensioning rod of a vertical pulverizer. The bushing body is divided circumferentially about the bushing surface into a plurality of sections joined together. The sections are configured and adapted to separate from one another for installation and removal of the bushing body about a tensioning rod of a vertical pulverizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Babcock Power Services, Inc.
    Inventors: George King, Joshua Creelman, William Freeman
  • Patent number: 8428960
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for processing of an original batch of documents in which any document of the original batch that fails to comply with the predefined specification is identified to be a non-compliant document. At least one non-compliant batch is then formed that contains the non-compliant documents. The non-compliant batch is distinct from at least one compliant batch that contains any documents that do comply with the predefined specification. At least one of the non-compliant and compliant batches advantageously includes a plurality of documents. The complaint batch(es) may then be forwarded for further processing without awaiting rework of the non-complaint documents included in the non-compliant batch(es).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Bonham, Anil Kumar, Richard J. Runkel, Jamison M. Stamps, Amanda Starr
  • Patent number: 8425620
    Abstract: A joint assembly for releasably securing a first and a second segment of an associated modular limb is provided. The joint assembly includes a male connector including a base and a load bearing blade secured to the base of the male connector protruding therefrom. The male connector is adapted to be secured to one of the first and second segments of the associated modular limb. A female connector is provided and includes a base and a load bearing socket secured to the base of the female connector. The socket is configured to selectively receive the blade of the male connector. The female connector is adapted to be secured to the other of the first and second segments of the associated modular limb. A locking member selectively retains the blade of the male connector in the socket of the female connector. The male connector, the female connector, and the locking member cooperate to form a resilient and selectively releasable modular limb joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: HDT Engineering Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ezra Johnson, W. Travis Lontz, Thomas W. Van Doren
  • Patent number: 8427638
    Abstract: Optical measurement devices including one or more sealing assemblies are described. The sealing assemblies are configured for use at relatively high temperatures and pressures, such as temperatures over 200 degrees F. and pressures over 10,000 psi. The sealing assemblies can include a deformable seal element surrounded on each side by a backup seal element. In some examples, the deformable seal element is formed of a material selected from a group consisting of a fluoroelastomer or polytetrafluoroethylene, and the backup seal elements are formed of a material selected from a group consisting of flexible graphite or metal foil. Optionally, at least one additional seal element functioning as an extrusion barrier can be placed on the opposite side of one or both backup seal elements from the deformable seal element. The additional seal element can be formed of polyether ether ketone or flexible graphite, for example. Additional devices and assemblies are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Atkinson, Christopher M. Jones, Michael T. Pelletier, Nathan Harder, Robert J. Murphy
  • Patent number: 8427903
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for monitoring a subsoil zone, wherein a plurality of receivers are arranged on a surface of the soil or near said surface, straight above a geological zone to be monitored, comprising the following steps: generating a set of reference seismic data recording seismic data by means of said receivers; correlating the seismic data recorded (52) with the reference seismic data; comparing each trace of the correlated data, with correlated traces located in a vicinity of said trace, in order to evaluate a similarity of each correlated trace with the adjacent correlated traces, detecting a microseismic event occurring in the subsoil zone by analysing said similarity. This method enables real-time monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: CGGVeritas Services SA
    Inventor: Julien Meunier
  • Patent number: 8424550
    Abstract: A method for operating a fluid drainage control system to drain a fluid from a fluid dispensation system is provided. The method includes determining a first ambient air temperature, determining if the first ambient air temperature is less than a predetermined drain set point temperature, isolating the fluid dispensation system from a fluid supply source by closing a supply valve located inside a temperature controlled area in response to the first ambient air temperature being less than the predetermined drain set point temperature, and draining the fluid from the fluid dispensation system by opening a drain valve subsequent to closing the supply valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Virid Services, LLC
    Inventor: Jon Lips
  • Publication number: 20130096159
    Abstract: Disclosed are inhibitors of human 12-lipoxygenase of Formula (I) or (II), wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are as defined herein, that are useful in treating or preventing a 12-lipoxygenase mediated disease or disorder, e.g., diabetes. Also disclosed are a composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and at least one inhibitor of the invention, and a method of treating or preventing such disease or disorder in a mammal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicants: The United States of America, as represented the Secretary Department of Health & Human Service, Thomas Jefferson University, Eastern Virginia Medical School, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: David J. Maloney, Theodore Holman, Ajit Jadhav, Anton Simeonov, Ganesha Rai Bantukallu, Jerry L. Nadler, Michael Holinstat
  • Patent number: D680416
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: United States Postal Service
    Inventor: Robert Dalton